Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science
Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science
Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science
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Chapter 1: Cause <strong>and</strong> effect. A high speed photograph by Harold E.<br />
Edgerton.<br />
Picture: http://canibuk.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/harold-edgerton/<br />
Commentary: A projectile after penetrating an apple. <strong>The</strong> penetration <strong>of</strong> the<br />
projectile is the cause <strong>of</strong> the direct effect: the beginning <strong>of</strong> an explosion <strong>of</strong><br />
the apple. This happens at the same moment. Cause <strong>and</strong> effect cannot be<br />
separated. <strong>The</strong>y are not one object <strong>and</strong> they are not two separated objects.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no space <strong>and</strong> no time between cause <strong>and</strong> object. <strong>The</strong> cause leads<br />
immediately to a near effect. <strong>The</strong>re is not first a cause <strong>and</strong> later an effect.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most important characteristic <strong>of</strong> bodies is their interdependence <strong>and</strong> the<br />
resultant, substancelessness, the impossibility <strong>of</strong> existing individually <strong>and</strong><br />
independently. A thing is not independent <strong>of</strong> its cause <strong>and</strong> conditions, nor is it<br />
identical with them.